The article talks about the new generation of driftcompetition "MSC callenge" and how their juging system defer from D1. Tire somke is considered to be one of the tactics of winning drift competitions in D1. But in MSC challenge, they do not look at tire smoke but instead they look at each driver's skill closer and encourage people to pick their tires according to their machine(car,horsepower,setup,etc,,,) and skill. (D2D, Vol2,Page 11)
And they even go so far as to say that blowing clouds of smoke is wasteful -they make an analogy - Its like breaking the glass you drink from everytime you take a sip